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I went two days in L2 before I knew how to send a tell.
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You can send tells in L2?
Having played the L2 beta a while ago, I understand GaliemVaelant and understand where he is coming from.
Many of the things are standardized, and are just part of 'good interface controls' now. Things like WASD are standard(was Halflife the first to use wasd? I remember doom being arrow keys etc, but there could be a fps before HL that used WASD)
I've always been a supporter of customization. Allowing the player to change stuff gives power to the user, who can make the game better for him, personally. I know my UI in Everquest was radically different from anyone else, so it'd be a terrible UI for default, but for customizations sake it's good.
In WoW the UI / controls are so flexible that in Alpha, people were able to make an ingame thing to play Tic-Tac-Toe with each other.
With things like standardization, it helps people only until they learn the new system, having /? instead of /help makes little difference a week after the person learns that it is, in fact, /?.
In WoW, I heard Blizzard is having /msg, /whisper, and /tell performing the same function. This is a good move in my mind.
In my opinion, every game developer should just copy Everquest's UI/controls/etc, it's very good =D
(Oh, and make every game allow first person view =)